Re: Job spec of a port maintainer

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 18:31:36 +0100, Sprow wrote:
> Is there a definition somewhere of what's involved?

As this is open-source/free-software work there's rarely anything written down.

My understanding of a port maintainer (for us at least) would be someone who
can commit to being around on-channel at least a bit; is competent in the use
of, and development of, applications on their target system, can respond in a
timely fashion to tickets, ideally within a few days even if only to say
thanks, I need to think about this; and will jump on front-end failures evident
in the CI system within a day or two at most.

Ideally they'd also be interested in learning about and assisting with the core
of the NetSurf codebase, and also our libraries; since all ports rely on those
to a greater or lesser extent.

> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2266
> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2170
> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2336
> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2289

Thank you. Hopefully Dave Higton may get to these, he has been invaluable
recently :-)

> but they presumably need reviewing. I know from a day job in engineering not
> to review my own code!

Indeed, reviews are helpful; though since we have post-commit CI, we do tend to
notice obvious errors pretty quickly :-)

D.

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